In this tutorial we are going to build a simple PHP/MySQL faceted navigation from scratch. In case you don’t know what faceted navigation is (or faceted search, layered navigation), it’s the nice filtering mechanism you see on most e-commerce sites in some form or another next to the product listing (see image). Continue reading…
In the project I’m currently working on we are moving from JQuery UI to a Twitter Bootstrap/JQuery approach. In JQuery UI it is very easy to setup your tabs so that content gets dynamically loaded. Getting the same functionality in Bootstrap requires a little bit of extra coding so here’s an example of how to load content into your Twitter Bootstrap tab elements using JQuery. Continue reading…
How can we produce a list of all files and folders inside a SharePoint List using the GetListItems method of the Lists.asmx webservice? As the webservice documentation is clearly lacking in some respects here’s an example of how to do it.
This post might seem a bit random but it took me quite some googling before I got the XML correct so I figured this might help someone else facing the same problem. Continue reading…
In this post I’ll explain a clever way to automatically generate a list of XPath expressions that can be used to select any element and attribute in an XML document. We’ll use PHP’s SimpleXML extension to easily parse and traverse the XML document and to build a simple XPath generator. Continue reading…
How to convert any MySQL table and data to a well-formed XML document using PHP. Building a generic solution to a common problem.
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